In other news, OpenAI launched its GPT Store, an online marketplace for developers to share their custom chatbots publicly. Google confirmed layoffs of around a thousand employees. Microsoft AI identified a novel material that could result in a prototype lithium battery with a 70% reduction in lithium usage. A new AI built by Columbia engineers discovered that fingerprints from different fingers of the same person are not unique. Finally, LangChain released its first stable and backward-compatible version, v0.1.0, which brings better observability and debugging capabilities.
Key takeaways:
- OpenAI launched its GPT Store, a platform for ChatGPT Plus, Team, and Enterprise users to find and create custom versions of ChatGPT, with a GPT builder revenue program set to launch in Q1.
- Poe LLM chatbot platform raised $75m and plans to use the majority of the funding to pay creators of bots on the platform through its recently launched creator monetization program.
- OpenAI has disclosed that 3 million GPTs have already been created, some of which enhance the capabilities of GPT-4 on specific tasks by combining the LLM with human imagination and expertise.
- Microsoft AI, utilizing Azure Quantum Elements, successfully identified a novel material after screening 32 million types, which resulted in a prototype lithium battery with a 70% reduction in lithium usage.